You Scream, We Scream, We all Scream for Yogurt
CF Family Starts Their Own Self-Serve Yogurt Shop
Meg Lane
Editor-in-Chief

Former CF student Allyson
Vuong keeps her eyes open
when she travels. With a family of business entrepreneurs,
Vuong and her family are
always looking for new ideas.
Their newest endeavor: a
self-serve frozen yogurt joint,
YogurtPro, that now sits by
Texas Roadhouse and Sakura.
“Down in Texas and in
the southern parts of the East
Coast, there are tons of these
self-serve yogurt shops, and
one day we were like, ‘we
should do this in Iowa,’”
Vuong said.
And so Yogurt Pro was
born. It’s the only self-serve
frozen yogurt joint in Cedar
Falls. The place has a lot
going for it, but one of its
claims to fame is the nutritional benefit of the yogurt
they serve.
“Yogurt Pro offers a
healthy kind of yogurt,”
Vuong said. “We use skim
milk instead of whole milk
so its fat free. And it’s sugar
free.”
Not to worry, though. According to Vuong, the yogurt

Photo By Sara Gabriele

still tastes amazing.
“[It’s great because] if you
are on a diet and you want
something to relieve your
cravings, you can come get
some yogurt and still be eating healthy.”
YogurtPro offers more
than just basic flavors. Their
wall of self-serve yogurt machines range from cheesecake
to espresso to even honeydew.
Customers are left to choose
for themselves which kinds

they want and of how much,
as prices are tabulated by
weighing at the register.
“The first time I went,
I was tempted to put every
single one of the flavors in my
bowl,” senior Alicia Pierce
said. “I resisted, but I ended
up going back the same day
because it was so good.”
In addition, flavors are
changed on a daily basis.
“[It’s great] because you
can try something new each

for the Christiansen Grant in
2010, art teacher Lisa Klenske
was excited in finding the art
department its lucky winner
in 2011. “I like having the
laptops in the art room so all
of the art department is in the
same area. Last year, I was
out of the room about half of
the time, so this year it is nice
to stay in one room and help
out the students who need it,”
Klenske said.
The grant awarded
$27,000 to the department,
helping buy 28 HP laptop
computers equipped with
software like Adobe Creative

Suite 3.0, which includes
Illustrator, Photoshop and
InDesign. “Our software is the
best, it is the industry standard
in professional photography,”
Klenske said.
Students especially appreciate the new computers and
their convenient location. Students feel it will better their
education in art and make it a
more fullfilled experience.
“I think they are great because we don’t have to move
anywhere to use them and if
we have a question we can
bring the computers with us,”
senior Hannah Riebeks said.

time,” junior Evan Cayton
said.
If the flavors don’t offer
enough variety, customers
can take their pick at the line
of toppings to load up on. Of
course there are the traditional
toppings-- fruit, chocolate
chips, sprinkles-- but Yogurt
Pro also boasts an array of
unique toppings customers
aren’t likely to have seen
any place else, like ‘bursting
boba.’

Boba are edible bubbles
filled with fruit juice that
bursts in your mouth. YogurtPro offers three different
flavors, mango, lychee, and
passion fruit.
Although they may look
like small fish eggs, most customers find they are surprisingly delicious.
If the yogurt doesn’t sell
customers, its modern layout
and clean-cut atmosphere will.
“It has a very clean and
cool atmosphere,” Cayton
said and sophomore Alli Hunt
concurred, “I like the way its
set up. Its a cute date place
and the cost is affordable.”
And that is what has kept
many students coming back
for more.
“ I’m glad Cedar Falls
finally has a place that is fun
and original,” senior Conner
Klein said.
“ It was a really cool
experience,” junior Carissa
Herkelman said, “ the yogurt
and everything was really
good and reasonably priced. It
was really retro and I just felt
cool being there! I’ve been
there twice and definitely plan
on going back!”

Art Department Is Awarded Grant
Sarah Church
News Writer

This school year, returning
students may have noticed
several significant changes
around the high school,
including a new ALPHA
room and the conversion of
the ERC (English Resource
Center) into the Learning
Lab. The art department in
particular has benefited in the
new term after being granted
HP laptops for its beginning
and advanced level digital
photography classes.
After a denied application

News Brief:
Next Pep Bus offered Friday, Sept 23

Students now have the
opportunity to attend every
Tiger football game with the
new away game pep bus. The
bus’s popularity attracts about
85 students per game, a great
way to travel with friends that
is school and parent approved.
The pep bus provides rides
to the away stadium and back
to the high school. The cost of
the pep bus is $6, as well as
$4-6 game admission depend-

ing on the game and stadium.
Interested students must visit
the main office and sign up on
the clipboard by noon the day
of the game. Students pay for
the bus when they sign up, but
wait to pay for the game until
they arrive.
The push for attendance
is not only to support the
Tiger football team but also
for safety precautions of the
students.

Opinion
Pants on the Ground

Sept. 20, 2011

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Students need to pay more attention to learning instead of sagging
Lucas Hamilton
Entertainment Editor

Trends move quickly in this new
age of globalization, but one trend that
persists in the youth is sagging.
Sagging is looked at as a symbol
of freedom, cultural awareness and as
a rejection of mainstream society by
the “saggers.” The concept of wearing your pants below your waist and
revealing your underwear originated
in prisons where belts were prohibited
because they could be used as weapons or for suicide. Hip-hop artists in
the 90s then began to take the concept
and make it mainstream. Now, we
have a new concept of fashion with all
of the baggy and saggy clothes.
Cities have been actually putting
laws in effect to prevent the excessive exposure of underwear and other
unnecessary things. In Opa-Locka,
Fla., a vote was held and a unanimous
decision was made that individuals
who refused to simply pull their pants
up would be faced with a $250 fine or
10 hours of community service.
At Westside Middle School in
Memphis, Tenn., the policy for sagging is either pull them up or get
“Urkeled,” like Steve Urkel from the
TV show Family Matters. The whole
idea behind “Urkeling” is that teachers
would pull the students’ pants up and

zip tie them to hold them up, fighting
pop culture with pop culture.
Why do people insist on sagging
their pants? Here are the potential
reasons I’ve come up with. It is possible that they forgot to wear a belt
that day and the pants happened to just
sag because of that; harmless mistake.
Someone could also have some sort
of deformity that causes the waist line
to be much lower than the general
population; medical reasons. It could
be that they enjoy the brisk autumn
breeze blowing down their pants;
leisure reasons.
It is guaranteed that a majority of
people who sag do not justify their
fashion choice in these ways. A majority of people think it makes them look
tough or “manly” when in actuality, it
makes you look lazy and a little less
than intelligent.
Maybe it is just me or an actual
problem, but lately, walking through
the halls, I’ve noticed more people
walking with underwear showing
and their “swag” on. What is even
the point of wearing pants if you are
just going to have them hang around
your knees? What is just absolutely
astonishing is that people will sag their
pants and then wear a belt in order to
keep them in that place. I couldn’t care
about how you wear your pants outside of school, but please have some

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respect for this place. Yes, it is school
and not fun all the time, but you are
not here to show off new underwear
you just got. No matter how cool your
new Batman or Superman underwear

Cartoon by Trevor Johnson

is, it is very well guaranteed that not
many people care to see it. You are
here to learn. Turn your “swag” off,
pull your pants up and get something
out of this place.

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need to take charge
Stepping Up: Students
in fight to end bullying

Occasionally coined as the Civil Rights issue of the 21st century, the LGBT movement has received both positive and negative feedback. On one hand we have the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell for our armed forces and an
increasing number of states allowing gay marriage.
But on the other hand remains the very real issue of hate crime. Just this August, Marcellus Andrews of Waterloo was violently beaten by attackers shouting anti-gay slurs; he died later in an Iowa city hospital from head
injuries.
Unfortunately, Andrew’s story is not one of a kind. In 2008 alone, 1,617 hate crimes were committed based
on sexual orientation alone; this number has most likely risen since then. With the rise of texting and social
media, bullying is taking on new and arguably more aggressive dimensions. What’s quickly emerging as one of
the most pertinent issues facing our generation deserves more attention than it currently receives. Bullying often
gets lots of talk but little action, as it is notoriously difficult to address. It is no secret this needs to change, and
fortunately students around the country are beginning to take actions to do so.
One such action is an organization called Stop the Hate, Spread Hope created and run by high school seniors
in Buffalo New York. Nick Longo, a sophomore at the time, created the organization as a means to provide an
outlet for any student who needed to share a story. Since then, the group has created a documentary compiling
these stories, made a website, given talks at high schools around New York and are even working with the Department of Education to expand the project. Longo’s work is inspiring — as high school students, it is our peers that
suffer from bullying. This is an issue not to be left to adults, but for us to tackle ourselves.

Sept. 20, 2011

Opinion

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Say Cheese:

Studies show smiling improves mood

Karl Sadkowski
Opinion Editor

“...the physical

Try this mind trick:
smile, and notice your mood
improve as a result. Many
believe facial expressions
follow felt emotions; however, facial expressions also
have the power to influence
emotions. Facial expressions
made intentionally can change
a person’s mood, a unique
concept growing in popularity
among psychologists.
The first to suggest that
physical responses influence
feelings was Charles Darwin
in 1872. William James later
extrapolated on Darwin’s
theory, a psychologist of
the 19th century still held in
great esteem by psychologists
today. James asserted that if
a person does not express an

emotion, he does not feel
it at all. Although today’s
scientists would generally
disagree, they do agree
that the brain is an influence in emotion, as well
as the face.
Malcolm Gladwell,
a prominent staff writer
with The New Yorker,
authored a New York
Times bestselling book
entitled Blink: The Power
of Thinking Without
Thinking in 2007 about
rapid cognition; that is,
making snap inferences
about situations in the
blink of an eye. At one
point, Gladwell discusses
a study conducted by Paul
Ekman, Wallace Friesan
and Robert Levenson
on how replicating
expressions of different emotions affect their
own moods. Gladwell writes,
“They monitored the bodily
indices of anger, sadness,

relive a particularly stressful
experience. The other was
told to simply produce a
series of facial movements,
as instructed by Ekman—to
‘assume the position,’ as
they say in acting class. The
second group, the people
who were pretending,
showed the same physiological responses as the first.”
A separate experiment
involved three test groups,
which rated their levels of
happiness before and after
the experiment: the first
group looked at pictures of
different facial expressions,
the second mimicked facial
expressions and the third
mimicked facial expressions
while looking at a mirror.
Of the three groups, the
third offered the strongest
results in mood change after
the experiment, followed by
the second group. Members
of the first group experienced
no mood change. Why these

muscular movements involved
in producing a
smile trigger endorphins, brain
chemicals known
for naturally drugging people into
feel-good states
of emotion.
and fear—heart rate and
body temperature—in two
groups. The first group was
instructed to remember and

”

differences? Introspection
may explain why the third
group rated the highest levels
of happiness. Because these
group members watched
themselves in a mirror when
smiling, they in turn became
more conscious of their own
thoughts and emotions changing with their smiles.
But the result of smiling
reaches farther than introspection. Evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar of Oxford
University claims that the
physical muscular movements
involved in producing a smile
trigger endorphins, brain
chemicals known for naturally
drugging people into feelgood states of emotion.
Despite the artificiality
of a forced smile, you may
surprise yourself as your
smile reflects back from your
bathroom mirror as you prepare for seven (possibly eight)
sometimes-stressful hours of
school. The concept of moodenhancing facial expressions
is still a theory, but it’s a
theory gaining momentum. So
try it. Trick yourself.
You’ll smile about it later.

Sports

Sept. 20, 2011 hiline.co.nr

New gym floor, setter, have
volleyball team amped up
Lindsey Davis
Staff Writer

After a summer of dust,
noisy jackhammers and
inconveniences, the new
gym floor is finally complete.
Since construction started last
school year and continued
well into August, expectations
for its completion were high.
Many volleyball players can
attest that the new floor is
everything they hoped for.
“The floor looks pretty
sweet and is a lot nicer to
dive on for volleyball because
there is no more wax flaking
up and making it look disgusting,” junior Miranda Dusenberry said.
Not only is the floor more
appealing, it also allows
practices to resume again in
the gym. Throughout the sum-

“The floor looks pretty sweet
and is a lot nicer to dive on for
volleyball because there is no
more wax flaking up,”
Miranda Dusenberry
mer, volleyball girls played
at Holmes Junior High as the
floor was built. The cramped
space was shared between the
varsity, JV, sophomore and
Holmes freshman teams. Players had a rough time practicing with very little room for
serving and court lines practically adjacent to the gym
walls, throwing off their depth
perception.
Despite the pains caused

by the closed high school
gym, the volleyball squad
has persevered. “We’ve been
playing really well together
and have done pretty good so
far this year. I think we can go
a long way if we all have the
right mindset,” senior Jamie
Farley said. Aggressive hitters
and big defense are crucial to
the team’s success. Already,
the Tigers have proven they
have these key ingredients.

The starting squad
includes nearly all returning
players, with the exception of
a new setter. Learning how to
hit off a certain setter takes
time, and after Sydney Howard graduated last year, the
Tigers were left trying to find
a replacement. Junior Megan
Evens was the one who filled
in. Teammates have noted that
she does her job well. “So
far we have done a great job
communicating with Megan
and we are easily adjusting,”
Dusenberry said.
With three games and three
tournaments under its belt, the
volleyball team has learned to
work together and has time to
continue improving. Next up
for the Tigers is Cedar Rapids
Prairie on Tuesday, Sept. 20.

Walk in the weight room at
Cedar Falls High School and
you’ll find several off-season
sports are represented there.
Jocks are lifting more than
their own mass in weights,
but the women’s tennis team
members have a new trick up
their tennis skorts.
“I’m looking forward to
seeing how much we improve
[our record] because we have
improved so much over the
last two years, and it always
makes the team happy to see
how much we progress from
the year before,” junior Halle
Benson said.
Break points, approach
shots and aces, coming from
mini skort wearing, athletic
divas proves the women’s
tennis team has been training
hard throughout the offseason. “Our tennis team has
been working very hard all
summer and will continue to
do so throughout the off-

season. I think our team has
incredibly improved since last
season, and I look forward to
meeting the new members of
our team. Tennis is the most
important sport I play, and I
feel it’s a sport you play for
life. It helps in every aspect of
your life,” team captain senior
Katie Todd said.
Last year’s record haunts
the team as they continue to
play match after match; committing to rally more matches
on the winning side of the record for the 2012 season. The
entire team has this desire for
success. Athletes throughout
the roster have been working
hard all summer long and plan
to take lessons at the tennis
club to keep their tennis skills
intact.
By following a point system Coach Knox implemented
(which consists of receiving
points per month for playing
matches or going to lessons),
the tennis players will train
to keep the physical aspect

of their games throughout
the off-season. However, according to Coach Knox, this
is not the only aspect that is
important to win this year.
Coach Knox contacted
Keith Schmidt, founder and
president of SportsMind
Success. The principles he
teaches to athletes from high
schools, colleges, professional
positions and the Olympics all
focus on having the mindset
of a champion. The team is
excited to meet with Schmidt
this month to discuss goals
and learn what it is to be a
champion.
“We’ve all been working
hard this summer to improve
our games. We are all going to
continue to work throughout
the winter so we can drastically improve our record this
season. Tennis is more than
just your strokes and your
serve. It is very mental. Hopefully meeting with the sports
psychologist will improve
our mental game and allow

us to win more,” team captain
junior Hannah Mallaro said.
Although physical ability and talent are important
for winning sporting events
universally, they alone cannot
make a conference champion
team. Mental ability and will
power are characteristics of
even more importance to a
winning athlete.
“Tennis is a really mental
sport. I have learned that if
you have the wrong mind set,
you’re more likely to make
more errors. It will be good
for the team to learn how
to mentally prepare for our
matches and always have a
positive attitude,” Benson
said.
The women’s team will
use mental toughness as
well as clarity, intuition,
self-esteem and personal
power to push all the way to
conference champs this year.
Those, along with their biceps
of steel and deltoids of iron,
that is.

Athlete
Week
of
the

Adam Streicher
Men’s Cross Country
Senior

1. How long have you been
running?
All four years. Ninth grade
through 12th.
Who helped you motivate
you this week?
The meet was at home, so just
all the cheering helped.
What are your goals for this
season?
I would like to go under 16
(minutes), and be in the top
two for the team.
4. Who is your biggest
influence?
My older brother Michael.